The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 11, 1907, Image 2
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THE FARMERS' 1
UNION BUREAU.!
Conducted by S. C. Farmers' Union.
Address all communications intended for this j
column to J. ('. Striding, Pendleton ,S. C.
No Rake OH In Here.
Now and then we are reminded of
the fact that some tender-hearted
politician or over cantioii3 news man
are at it'all the while looking out
for some political scheme or rakeoff
to crop out throotjh our farmers'
Uniou Bureau column in the newspapers.
In order to put all such at
ease and rest on this point we most
emphatically state here that no one
on our committee in charge of this
column or behind it in auy way is
not aspirants for political honors or
dependent in any way for our support
for this work. If we knew
what patriotism or missionary work
is, that is our aim. We are not in
this thing for auy rake-off or purely
personal aggrandizement We are after
driving the truth abroad at every
lick, it matters not whether the
truth makes or loses friends to ns.
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Cev Peas.
Don't think of not planting a full
crop of cow peas because you think
the seed too high.
Where seed are scarce plant in the
drill and cultivate them with the
1 . plow
or disc harrow. One peck of
, good seed may be made to complete
ly cover the ground with vines, if the
viney sort is planted.
Harvest the crop of seed and vines
wheu pods begin to turn yellow by
N cuttiug the vines off at the roots,
rake up in good size stacks; when
well cured stack or house all together.
Thresh out peas and vines with a
thresher or stick. This tnresbing of
the vines improves the condition of
the hay and solves the proplern as to
the cheapest method of gathering
cow peas.
You can well afford to pay even
$4 per bushel for cow j>eas rather
than do without the crop.
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flew York Cottoo Exchange.
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We have before us for our consideration
a long letter of protest
against the New York Cotton Exchange
surrendering its right tu exist
at the demands of Southern cotton
growers.
This tune-honored and dishonorable
institution first claims for its
right to exist is that it has been at it
for over half a century. As though
a grip of graft upon the vital organs
of the S-uth's chief staple crop,
Cotton, should be continued indefinitely
just because the Sotth has not
-been able to shake them off for lo,
these many years of hard struggling.
Ages cf existence will never make
right. "Truth crushed to earth
will rise up again" with more might,
as age adds to its power.
In its blowout letter that we are
C&lle<l npon to accept as final argument?this
corporation, Mammon,
pats the Farmers' Union on notice
that tfle consumer*have aside to be
heard from in this matter?reminds,
one that it is a new idea for this Exchange
to recognize the fact that
there is two sides to this question of
prieing cotton.
We now put this New York Cotton
Exchange on notice also that for
practicical results for good that it
has doue we only have to look at the
accumulation of wealth and splendor
of cotton dealers and cotton
manufacturers of the Northeast aud
then turn again and view the wretched
hovels and poorly clad conditions
of the larger class of cotton growers
of the South which can only be
compared to a king's royal family
and his peasant subjects.
Ye?! We mean just what we say
that the time is near at hand when
a ohauge must come. The New
York Cotton Exchange and all others
like it must go out of business or
show to tbe cotton producers of the
South, that it is to our interest to
inaiutain theui. There is a limit beyond
where the strongest conibiuai
m
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Take Scoff*
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tions of even money power cannot!
trample under their feet the Godgiven
rights of the humblest people.1
In their second reason for holding
on to their graftv grip on our cotton j
this Exchange mentions the fact
that St. Louig has control of the
zinc and tin trade.
3rd. Because Holland has control
of Java's tin.
4th. Aud London the tin of the
8traits, ?fcc.
All, each and every one of which
does not afford even one good reason
why any one of them should exist;
but each and every one of these con
anions ponus out an aiarunug increase
of this growing evil of distant
speculative elements controling products
from their own arbitrary views
of the matter, regardless of the cost
of production or what would be a
fair division of profits iu the business.
All of which is a tine argument
in favor of the South being the proper
parties to place prices on her
great money crop, cotton. . ,
Yes, the limit of the "Corporation
Hog" who regards the cotten grower
as his right aad property has been
reached and our Farmers' Union aim
is to make a touch-down right now
that will go on record.
Will the New York Exchange tell
us who set8 prices on iron, lumber,
coal, oil, cotton mill products, agricultural
implements, fertilizers,
American harvesting machinery and
numbers of other products of New
England manufactories?
Each and almost every one of
these have combined tbeir interests
and cut out the middleman that
took a rake-off of goods that he had
no hand in tbeir production. And
unless the whole or main business
iutoestsof the South and help hold
down the lid on cotton for profitable
prices this New York Cotton Exchange
and all of its co-workers will
continue to rob the South of its Godgiveu
wealth that has been placed
within the soil of our sunny clime.
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Black Listed Fertilizers and Yellow
Listed Cotton.
Fertilizer men kick like thunder
when farmers put their goods that
don't come up 10 the guarantee on
the "black-list," as Clemson College
did before the law placed a penalty
| ins end of "back-listing." But the
! unorganized, helpless cotton grower
that is seen trotting the streets with
a sample of his cotton hunting up
he local buyer for cotton bears has
no apparent alternative but to take
the verdict of this cotton sample, let
I that be vellow or blue-listed. Now
the limit in this matter has been
reached too, and we mean to demand
fair play. If fertilizer meu haye
failed to produce goods up to their
guarantee from any cause they
should take the cousequeuces just
the same as the cottou growers had
to take the yellow tinge cast placed
upon their cotton bv an unavoidable
frost.
On all shipments of fertilizers
that fall ten percent below guaran
tee in money value tney are name to
the purchaser for one-third of the
price and a forfeit of the whole lot
^toClemson College. For example
378 Etiwan Dis Bone, sample at
Bowman, .Tan. 30th, is off 10-2 per
cent uaojey value below theis guarantee
$11 20, which makes the manufacturer
liable to the purchaser
$5.27 per ton on this lot and a forfeit
to Cleinson College of this whole
shipment.
i Oji all shipments that fall three per
Cent below guarantee th*y are liable
to the purchaser for three times the
amount of deficiency. Example:
take sample No. 1 cotton seed meal,
manufactured at Cioss Iiill, sample
at Cross Hill January 21, is off G-6
per cent and is liable to the purchas
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tystem is exhausted and ^
listance weakened. q
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thens your entire system. ^
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> take and easy to digest ^
50c. AND $1.00 A
er for three times $1.54 or $4.54 per
ton. Here are other samples below
the three per cent guarantee aud are
hable the same peualty as above.
Sample 221?Monarch Vegetable
Grower, sample ?.t Pendleton Januuary
28th, off $1.23, penalty to purchaser
$3.69, value of shortage $1.23,
total amount of claim due purchaser
$4.92 per ton. Sample 56Va.
C. C. Co., sample at Cowpens
29th .Tanuarv. 4-1 Der cent off. lia
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billtv penalty to puichaser $2.52
per ton.
The following are liable to the
purchaser for the sample shortage
only as they don't come under the
head of three per cent penalty according
to our figures.
Sample 117?Nitrate Soda, Etiwan
P. Co., sample at Piuewood,
21st January, short $1.45..
Sample 228?Wando, Va. C. C.
Co., sample at Honea Path 6th Februaiy,
60 cts. per ton short.
Sample 484?Nitrate Soda, Dacomoke
G. Co., sample at Lexington
2nd February, short 75 cts. per ton.
TViop* lira narhnna f.an mnrc f?Om
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panies that have fallen below money
value fron 10 cts. to 60 cts. per tou
on certain shipments which should
put all users of fertilizer on the
watch out and keep up with the
Fertilizer Bulletin sent out to all
applicant? by H. M. Stack house,
Secretary Board Fertilizer Control,
Clerason College, S C
If any of our Farmers'. Udiou
members have already bought any
of the mentioned fertilizers that are
short iu value, our Union Bureau
would advise you 6rst to make out
a careful statement in money value
according to shortage anil present
your claim to the local agent or factory
that sold you (he goods, and no
doubt if your claim is based upon
actual shortage in money value the
manufacturer of the goods could not
refuse to pay a just claim. Otherwise,
if you are sure that your claim
is a just one, and the manufacturer
refuses to settle the matter, this
would be prima facie evidence that
fraud was intended at the start and
proceedings should be taken at once
through your business agent to
recover the loss.
After establishing the fact that
the price of fertilizers was raised
this year and at the same time the
quality of the goods reduced, there
is no jury iu the country that would
stand for a rake-off both going and
corning, as this fact appears to be.
In looking over the FertilizerBulletin
we find quite a number of
samples from different manufactures
that are short in some one of the
three important ingredients?ammonia,
phosphoric acid or potash; but
as the money value in the shortage
has been made up in the excess ou
other ingredients the companies falling
short under these circumstances
are not amenable to penalties under
the last fertilizer law for this, as the
fertilizer men claim unavoidable er"
ror that sometimes come to the best
management in their manipulation
of ingredients.
But, however, if the farmer has
an idea that this ever can be avoided
be has a remedy iu buying his ingredients
iu large wholesale lots and
doing his own manipulating of his
fertilizers, which no donbt car. be
done on most farms with considerable
profit, outside of the comfort
of knowing tiiat be is Dot liable to
be getting the shortage 011 one point
where some other man is getting the
long end of seme ingreuitut that he
did not order. This whole review of
this matter emphasizes the importance
of buying fertilizer ingredients
in large lots through your organizations,
where your sample test may
be made stand for shipments of several
hundred ton lots instead of ten
Or twelve tons where samples iiave
been drawn from small shipments.
How to Run a Newspaper.
When a man goes astray
Keep it out.
When the critic roasts a play
Keep it out.
When two men in anger clash;
When a nieiohant goes to smash; j
When the cashier steals the cash? j
Keep it out.
When they quarrel in the church'
Keep it out.
Whea a teacher wields the birch
Keep it out.
When nine women fair to see
Whisper something over tea?
Pr'nt it? Goodness gracious me! j
"Keep it out!"
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Keep it out.
When another tries to steal
Keep it out.
Stories thin and stories tall;
Good and baa and big and small?
Anything that's news at all?
"Keep 'em out!''
?Peoria Herald Iranscript.
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Miss "Cricket" Graham to Wed.
Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Graham of
Wilmington has issued invitations to
the marriage of her daughter, Miss
Ida, tc Clarence Empire Moite, the
wedding to occur at the First
; Baptist church in Wilmington on
Tuesday, April 16, at 5 o'clock.
Miss "Cricket" Graham has many
friends in Florence who will learn
of her wedding, with much interest.
?Florence Time*.
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Cashiers of
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Kingstree, - S. C.
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I SPRING! SPRING! SPRING! |
NOW THAT IT HAS ARRIVED 3; j
I wish to announce toourcustomersandthe ? J
public in general that we are better prepared jll j
than ever before to serve our customers, our
bifyer having just returned from Northern 5
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% Kingstree, S. C. .y
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to thank our triends for their generous patronage.
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ber where you buy "Anchor" Lime you get the best. If it is good *
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Yours for Business,
Hake City Hardware Co.,
LAKE CITY, S.C *
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